Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness Ensuring the Quality and Appropriate Use of Hand Sanitizers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: www.cambridge.org/dmp Suggestions and Recommendations With the Role of the Pharmacist Letter to the Editor Muhammad Hammad Butt1 , Abrar Ahmad1, Shahzadi Misbah1, 2 2 3 Cite this article: Butt MH, Ahmad A, Misbah S, Tauqeer Hussain Mallhi , Yusra Habib Khan , Khayal Muhammad and et al . Ensuring the quality and appropriate use 4 of hand sanitizers during the COVID-19 Zafar Iqbal pandemic: suggestions and recommendations with the role of the pharmacist. Disaster Med 1Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan; 2Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Public Health Prep. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/ Pharmacy, Jouf University, Sakaka, Al-Jouf Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; 3Department of Clinical Pharmacy, dmp.2021.55. Faculty of Pharmacy, Near East University, Nicosia, North Cyprus, Turkey and 4Department of Pharmaceutical Services, Armed Forces Hospital, King Abdulaziz Air Base, Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Keywords: hand Sanitizers; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; quality; recommendations Currently, there is no specific treatment for coronavirus disease (COVID-19), and the avail- Corresponding author: ability of the newly developed vaccine is limited. Precautionary measures, such as wearing Tauqeer Hussain Mallhi, masks, social distancing, handwashing, surface disinfecting, and using hand sanitizers, have Email:
[email protected]. remained the only effective measures during the ongoing pandemic.1,2 Of these, quality, avail- ability, and appropriate use of hand sanitizers hold paramount importance and consideration. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends 2 alcohol-based formulations to lessen the spread and infectivity of the novelty virus.